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Diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the chaos that has prevailed in Libya
since 2011 have legitimized Khalifa Haftar, a former Libyan general
whose forces have been accused of torture and executing prisoners,
according to the Atlantic Council’s Karim Mezran.

Polish President Andrzej Duda’s decision to veto controversial judicial
reforms gives Poland—the scene of creeping authoritarianism—an
opportunity to mend its relationship with the European Union (EU). It
also represents a significant split between the president and Jarosław
Kaczyński, the head of the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) and a man
to whom Duda owes much of his political career.

Targeted US sanctions, including against Venezuela’s oil sector, would
be a welcome move against a regime that has plunged this South American
nation into an economic and humanitarian crisis, Luis Almagro, secretary
general of the Organization of American States (OAS), said at the
Atlantic Council in Washington on July 21.

US President Donald J. Trump’s administration should conduct a
long-overdue review of the designation of Sudan as a state sponsor of
terrorism, according to a new report from the Atlantic Council’s Africa
Center.

Mixed messages from US President Donald J. Trump’s administration and an
apparent belief in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates that they
have the ear of the White House have exacerbated the crisis between the
United States’ Arab Gulf partners, according to Richard LeBaron, a
nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.

Russia has decisively expanded its global footprint in a way that
analysts say challenges the West and will force US President Donald J.
Trump to rethink his “America First” strategy.

This challenge
extends well beyond Russia’s neighborhood—Ukraine, Georgia, and the
Baltic States—to Syria, Libya, and even Afghanistan. Western governments
and intelligence agencies have also accused Russia of meddling in elections in the United States and Europe.

North Korea’s successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile
(ICBM) that has the ability to strike Alaska could embolden Pyongyang to
be more aggressive in the future, according to an Atlantic Council
analyst.